
CompactView alternatives
CompactView is a viewer component that allows you to view the contents of Microsoft SQL Server database files without actually opening a database connection. It is intended to be used as an aid in application development and testing before installing a full production copy of SQL Server on the target system. It is suitable for embedded applications and has no dependencies, so there is no need to ship additional component libraries. In a typical application, CompactView is used in conjunction with a Windows Forms control that uses the component to present a read-only view of the data retrieved by using standard T-SQL queries.
Database files are large and very inefficient to ship across a network connection or store on a mobile device. CompactView component allows you to use this content on the client-side so that only a small subset of the data needs to be transferred from server to client. It can handle SQL Server database files of any size, limited only by available memory. You will never again be forced to choose between parsing an entire database’s contents or leaving it unopened in your investigative tool.












































